Ward Adds Sullivan to Awards

Charlie Ward, the Heisman Trophy winner from Florida State, won the Sullivan Award on Monday night as the nation’s outstanding amateur athlete for 1993.

The quarterback is the first football player to win the Sullivan since Army teammates Doc Blanchard in 1945 and Arnold Tucker in 1946. Ward and Blanchard are the only ones to win both the Heisman and the Sullivan.

“I guess this is different than the Heisman,” Ward said. “I kind of knew what was going to happen there, but tonight was a big surprise.”

Ward led Florida State to its first national championship last fall and was the most valuable player in the Seminoles’ 18-16 Orange Bowl victory over Nebraska.

The other nine finalists were wrestler Bruce Baumgartner, gymnast Shannon Miller, figure skater Brian Boitano, sprinter Gail Devers, basketball players Sheryl Swoopes and Bobby Hurley, speedskater Dan Jansen, decathlete Dan O’Brien, and swimmer Jenny Thompson.

The Sullivan winner is chosen each year in a vote by more than 2,000, including members of the Amateur Athletics Union, the U.S. Olympic Committee, past Sullivan winners and selected news media.